How to format your references using the Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

Tobias J A 2015 Biodiversity: Hidden impacts of logging Nature 523 163–4

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Grünwald D and Singer R H 2010 In vivo imaging of labelled endogenous β-actin mRNA during nucleocytoplasmic transport Nature 467 604–7

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Baulch H M, Stanley E H and Bernhardt E S 2011 Can algal uptake stop NO3(-) pollution? Nature 477 E3; discussion E3-4

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Chaudhuri J, Tian M, Khuong C, Chua K, Pinaud E and Alt F W 2003 Transcription-targeted DNA deamination by the AID antibody diversification enzyme Nature 422 726–30

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

Kasper S and Montgomery S 2013 Treatment-resistant Depression (Oxford: John Wiley & Sons)

An edited book

[1]

Azar A T and Vaidyanathan S 2015 Computational Intelligence Applications in Modeling and Control vol 575 (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ahlswede R 2016 Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems Hiding Data - Selected Topics: Rudolf Ahlswede’s Lectures on Information Theory 3 Foundations in Signal Processing, Communications and Networking ed A Ahlswede, I Althöfer, C Deppe and U Tamm (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 225–336

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics.

Blog post

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Davis J 2016 North American Tribes Temporarily Halt Construction Of Pipeline In North Dakota IFLScience

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

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Government Accountability Office 1994 Weather Forecasting: Improvements Needed in Laboratory Software Development Processes (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Nonu M E 2017 Eagle Lake Climate Change during the Holocene and during the Last 100 Years Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach)

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

de la MERCED M J 2017 Oscar Health and Humana Team Up in Small-Firm Venture New York Times B3

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Abbreviation	J. Phys. G Nucl. Part. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0954-3899
ISSN (online)	1361-6471
Scope	Nuclear and High Energy Physics